The Boxing Day Test is a relatively new "tradition" but long may it unite the nation during our languid holiday celebration, writes Catherine McGregor.

This summer, there's a wealth of high-quality binge-watching opportunities on offer — and if there's one theme that reached peak saturation on television and streaming platforms in 2017, it's the hunt for the missing person.

The Biennale of Sydney is preparing to welcome the largest ever lifeboat of refugees to Sydney Harbour in March: a 70-metre black rubber vessel bearing 258 passengers, courtesy of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei.

The 90-year-old Maylands Brickworks may fire up for a second life, with talks underway to reactivate the historic site.

An Egyptian court jails a little-known singer for two years for inciting debauchery after she appeared in a music video in her underwear and suggestively eating a banana.

Women working in the Australian music industry are speaking out about their own experiences of sexual harassment in the #MeNoMore campaign.

Today, Campbell Remess is just your regular 13-year-old making his way to school - but come tomorrow, the young Tasmanian philanthropist will jet off to the US to be celebrated as a Young Wonder.

A nurse has been stood down from his hospital job in northern Western Australia following an expletive-filled, racist rant on social media that threatened violence against children.

Romper Stomper is being rebooted as a six-part TV series, and its creator Geoffrey Wright says there has never been a better time to explore anxieties around race and culture.

With the average Australian wedding costing about $30,000, or the price of a small car, we asked you for tips on how you did it for less. Here's what you told us.

"This is not going to go the way you think," says Luke Skywalker in Star Wars The Last Jedi. But that's not going to stop us from speculating.

The chairman of Britain's largest commercial television company has warned that internet giants Facebook and Google pose a "clear and present danger" to civil society.

Eileen Kramer learnt the twist from Louis Armstrong in Paris, and moved back to Australia at 99 because she dreamed of hearing kookaburras again — and she is still dancing at 103 years old.

If you've ever used #selfie on Instagram, there is a chance you're featured in a work that has just won a major national award.

Holocaust survivor groups ask Poland to explain a video showing naked men and women running around in what is believed to be a Nazi gas chamber.

A water balloon gun, Pussy Riot tickets and Ugg boots are some of the more unusual items declared by Tasmania's politicians as part of the routine listing of official gifts they received.

Many men see sexual harassment daily, so why don't they say something? The answer is complex but often comes down to socialisation and fear of breaking the code of mateship, writes Tracey Spicer for ABC Online.

We think of digital records as accessible, up to date and easy to store, but for librarians this type of content can prove extremely challenging.

Rachel Getting Married screenwriter Jenny Lumet says she recalls a night around 1991 when Def Jam founder Russell Simmons took her to his New York apartment and had sex with her, despite her repeated demands that he stop.

High-profile ABC Radio Melbourne host Red Symons has announced he will not be returning to present the station's Breakfast program in 2018, telling listeners he was offered "other things" but decided to make a clean break.